Comments on: Google Not Showing Ads at Top For Those Who Don't Click http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Mon, 20 May 2013 00:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Yaron http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php#comment-13699 Yaron Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:04:25 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php#comment-13699 <p>One data point does not make a statistic, but I personally only clicked on a single ad in a Google search page, ever, and so far I still sometimes notice these blue ads at the top of the search results.</p> <p>I just checked again, and yes, they're there.</p> <p>So unless that claimed dependency is that they only show the ads to people who don't click on them (Give people a first taste, and afterwards they'll go looking for ads elsewhere intentionally??), it cannot be a general rule.</p> One data point does not make a statistic, but I personally only clicked on a single ad in a Google search page, ever, and so far I still sometimes notice these blue ads at the top of the search results.

I just checked again, and yes, they’re there.

So unless that claimed dependency is that they only show the ads to people who don’t click on them (Give people a first taste, and afterwards they’ll go looking for ads elsewhere intentionally??), it cannot be a general rule.

]]> By: Richard Stokes http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php#comment-13698 Richard Stokes Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:00:14 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php#comment-13698 <p>John,</p> <p>I can tell you with almost complete certainty that this is not true. I have just consulted thousands of keywords of data for the weekend, and the premium ads have not shown any significant change from previous behavior.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> -Rich<br /> www.AdGooroo.com</p> John,

I can tell you with almost complete certainty that this is not true. I have just consulted thousands of keywords of data for the weekend, and the premium ads have not shown any significant change from previous behavior.

Thanks,
-Rich
http://www.AdGooroo.com

]]> By: Scott Rafer http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php#comment-13697 Scott Rafer Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:21:18 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/09/google_not_showing_ads_at_top_for_those_who_dont_click.php#comment-13697 <p>Do you think a third-party service that did the same for sites running AdSense would be popular? We've got roughly 90 million anonymous reader profiles, and we've been getting adclicks for about 10 days now. We could deliver "do they click on AdSense, YPN, et al" info to anyone running our Javascript. <a href="http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/yahoo_publisher.html" rel="nofollow">http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/yahoo_publisher.html</a></p> <p>To protect our members with profiles, we'd need to exclude them from the pool of advertising targets, but that wouldn't dramatically affect the reach of the system. </p> Do you think a third-party service that did the same for sites running AdSense would be popular? We’ve got roughly 90 million anonymous reader profiles, and we’ve been getting adclicks for about 10 days now. We could deliver “do they click on AdSense, YPN, et al” info to anyone running our Javascript. http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/yahoo_publisher.html

To protect our members with profiles, we’d need to exclude them from the pool of advertising targets, but that wouldn’t dramatically affect the reach of the system.

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